Watch Stranger Things Star Deliver the Most Explosive Moment of the SAG Awards

When the cast of Stranger Things took the stage to accept the award for best ensemble in a drama series, at the SAG Awards Sunday night, they elected star David Harbour (a.k.a. Chief Jim Hopper) to speak for them. And while Harbour’s speech was filled with some of the most passionate, political rhetoric of an already political night, it was co-star Winona Ryder’s face that spoke a thousand words.

The cast was already plenty wound up by the time they hit the stage, with young performers Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, and Millie Bobby Brown literally jumping up and down with joy. But their boisterous leaping and clapping continued as Harbour proclaimed: “This award from yo,u who take your craft seriously and earnestly believe, like me, that great acting can change the world, is a call to arms from the great men and women to go deeper and through our art battle fear, self-centerdness, and exclusivity of our predominantly narcissistic culture and through our craft to develop a more empathetic and understanding society.”

Though it’s unclear exactly how Ryder felt about Harbour’s political statement, she let more than a dozen different emotions play over her face as he spoke. Seeming by turns uneasy, supportive, and at times mocking, Ryder grinned, scowled, and threw up a fist or two from just over Harbour’s shoulder.

Unaware of Ryder’s antics behind him (but surely seeing Brown, Matarazzo, et. al. supportively hopping around in his peripheral vision), Harbour concluded by answering one of the questions currently plaguing some Americans: is it okay to punch a Nazi? “We will, per chief Jim Hopper,” Harbour shouted, ”punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized.” For that explosive conclusion, Harbour got a standing ovation—and enthusiastic approval from Ryder.